- Awapuni School views the relationship between the school, students, and families as a partnership based on open communication and shared values of pride, excellence, respect, integrity, and creativity. - The syndicate includes 5 classrooms of years 4-6 students who participate in literacy, numeracy, and integrated learning activities together. - Parents are encouraged to communicate with their child's teacher and become involved in supporting their child's learning at home and at school.

1. Awapuni School – where children love to learn and learn to love

2. •Welcome & introductions
•Please sign guest book
•Syndicate information
•Visit your child’s classroom and talk informally to
their teacher

3. Cheryl Torrie
Syndicate Leader
Sarah Aperahama Sara Gaertner
Room 1 Room 2
Sherryl Gomm
Associate
Syndicate Leader
Annie Gear Frances O Donnell
Room 3 Kate Richardson Room 5
Room 4

4. Our partnership with you
Child
Excellence Respect for ourselves
and others.
Integrity
Creativity
School Family
&Whanau
Awapuni School views our partnership as a
three-way triangle
Open communication is vital
communicate by email…see your child’s teacher

5. We believe in PRIDE
Personal
Responsibility
In
Developing
Excellence

6. New Zealand
Curriculum
Key Health
English & PE
Competencies
Social
Maths
Essential Sciences
Learning
Areas
The
Science Arts
Technology

7. •building a learning environment in our classrooms that
fosters emotional safety
•Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L)
•Cooperative learning & small group skills
•Student independence and self-control
•Students responsibility for their own learning
•Intrinsic motivation for rewards
•Thinking about thinking
•Everyone is a learner - students and teachers

8. School Rules
Social skill
teaching
Labeling and
acknowledging
behaviour

9. When faced with inappropriate behaviour the
students are taught the strategy of using their
WITS….
The emphasis in this strategy is to say an “I”
statement first and assert that they do not like the
behaviour being presented to them.
W = walk away
I = ignore it
T = tell someone
S = say an “I” statement.

10. 5 classes each with Year 4, 5 or 6 students,
Syndicate combines for many activities...
Singing and assembly once a week with the Year 6
students taking a leading role
Daily exercise 5 days a week + Games on Thursdays
Kapa Haka on Fridays – searching for new tutor/s

11. Your children will have the following in their
programme…
 daily lessons in numeracy and literacy
 access to information technologies with their own
email address
 Integrated curriculum that is rich and connects to
the real world with an inquiry base where appropriate
 library access at school once a week for targeted
teaching of information/library skills
 monthly visits to the HB Williams Memorial Library
 involvement in community activities wherever possible

12. •We teach Mathematics & Statistics
•Problem solving is a big component
•Mental strategies are developed
•Maths is timetabled every day
•Students at this level need to know their basic facts
•Teachers involved in professional learning

13. •We teach reading strategies that aim at developing
reading comprehension into the high levels of inference
•Many of our Senior Syndicate students are readers and
are now reading to learn
•We have a small number of students that will need support
as they are still learning to read
•No matter what their reading level, students need to be
reading texts of their own choice every night to become
lifelong readers who use texts for leisure and pleasure and
to gain information

14. •Awapuni School has identified many factors in writing that
need emphasising from annual whole school reviews of
writing
•Writing is timetabled daily.
•Spelling is an important part of writing
•students are in a formal spelling programme
•Spelling is targeted in homelearning

15. Assessment is aimed at improving learning and teaching…
•criteria based assessments
•assessments are mostly recorded in student’s Portfolio
For Assessment as teacher/self/peer assessments
•PFA will come home at the end of Term 1
•we are aligning our assessments with the National
Standards.
•PFA are used to drive Student-Led Conferences (SLC)
in Term 4
•SLC should inform you of progress and achievements
over the year
•Meetings are held for whole school closer to SLC to
give the whole picture

16. Lets not have a battleground!
 Homelearning has three sections
Reading
Spelling The best thing you can
spend on your children is
Maths
TIME!
 Most of this homelearning can be done independently.
You just need to check that it has been completed, sign
to say so, test spelling words each night
or join in to make games out of the spelling and maths
grid.

17. 4 – 8 March
Sleepover one night in the Hall
Aimed to build cohesion in class
Teachers and students gel as a unit
Get to know each other
Olympic Pools for deep water challenge (swim & survivie)
Kayaking in Olympic Pools
Teachers arranging other activities for the rest of the
week e.g. Frisbee Golf, Pirate Hunt on Kaiti Hill

18. •Personal Learning Goals
•Parent help
•Head lice
•Newsletters & email
•Swimming
•Social media, blogs, websites, Facebook

19. Everything we do is aimed at raising student achievement and making
Awapuni School a place where children love to learn and learn to love

20. Please ask any questions you have of us…
Your child’s teacher will
now be in their
classroom – please visit
them now and say hello!